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Zahid Rabbani
New Delhi should listen carefully to the former Congress president Rahul Gandhi who says the shameful bigotry of the BJP is not only isolating India but also damaging her global standing. He said that divided internally, India becomes weak externally.
The Modi-led BJP government should apologize for the mistakes. Instead of doing a drama against anti-social elements in the party who have defamed India at the international level, it should arrest those playing with the future of the country.
If the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reprimanded BJP supporters and TV anchors who indulge in a regular hate campaign against the Muslim community, the present embarrassment facing the country could have been avoided, say Modi’s critics.
They say the Modi government dismissed a U.S. government report on religious minorities in India. BJP government is doing a vote-bank politics in international relations. Modi must listen to the reply the U.S. allies in Gulf are giving.
The Indian government opponents call the BJP’s claim of respecting all religions a sham. In order to get votes, the top leadership of the BJP party creates a new vocabulary with words like Shamshan-Kabristan i.e. cremation ground versus graveyard.
Amnesty International has also joined the lengthy list of those whose beating hearts refuse to side with India’s relentless bigotry. Earlier, India’s top judiciary had also slammed the government in Uttar Pradesh for the “deteriorating law and order situation.
Despite the fact that authorities enjoying the hot seat in New Delhi are in no mood to be disturbed by the unceasing subjugation of their own men and women, the international community is finding it tough to stomach yet another making of a Holocaust.
It is a fact that India is involved in a state-sanctioned genocide. It became clear the moment its leaders gave up on the secular principles; stoking up the anxieties of an already abysmal group.
In spite of their overwhelming two-hundred-million-strong community, the third-largest in the world, Muslims in India have recurrently been forced to show their loyalty to the BJP government. Particularly, the last two decades have been traumatic beyond what anyone could expect.
What had started as anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat in 2002 became an everyday reality for millions upon millions when the red carpet was unrolled for the chief architect in 2014.
Ever since even living in an isolated fringe has not been sufficient for the Hindu nationalist now wish to unleash the true power of their deities upon the hapless community.
Love Jehad, Cow Protection, provocative rallies, Babri Masjid verdict, Sulli Deals, Hejab Ban, dragging the extensive list on and on. The message is hard to ignore. Gone are the days of Hindu-Muslim Bhai-Bhai.
Persons who had hopped aboard the Nehru caravan had better get used to the new status quo because a semi-citizen status is the only available deal on the table. One step out of the line could send out the signal to terrifying bulldozers ever ready to crush their houses, their rights, and even their lives.
The despicable statements surrounding the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the BJP’s clear attempts to divert the storm were all signs of a state that refuses to pay any regard to something that forms the crux of faith practiced by an exceedingly large group.
More distressing has been the air reeking with collective punishment as government forces and their whims, not any due process, decide who gets to taste the wrath of bulldozers, batons, and bullets.
The lines between Israeli atrocities and New Delhi’s Islamophobic tendencies are being blurred by the day. The Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs are as Indians as the Hindus. They have a right to practice their religion. However, Modi does not care.
